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Here’s a baby name explanation I’ve never come across before: in-flight magazine!
British property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne — talking last month to the Irish Times at an event celebrating the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (which his father, Hamar, helped negotiate) — let it slip that he’d named his famous fashion-model daughter Cara Delevingne after the Aer Lingus in-flight magazine Cara:
I remember I used to go backwards and forwards to Dublin a lot, and the name of the Aer Lingus magazine was Cara. I loved the name.
Cara was first published in 1968. The magazine’s title comes from the Irish word cara, meaning “friend.” Cara was discontinued in December of 2020 due to “the impact of Covid-19,” but the airline plans to re-introduce it as a digital publication in the future.
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne (pronounced DEL-ah-VEEN) was born in 1992. Her middle name presumably honors her maternal grandfather, Sir Jocelyn Stevens.
And let’s not forget the distinctive name Hamar. According to one source, Hamar’s birth name was Thomas Hubbard Hamer Greenwood, but he chose to go by “Hamar” — an altered spelling of the maiden name of his Welsh paternal grandmother (Mary Hamer, 1795-1838).
MacLaren, Roy. Empire and Ireland: The Transatlantic Career of the Canadian Imperialist Hamar Greenwood, 1870–1948. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.
Elliott Arnold’s 1947 novel Blood Brother was a fictionalized account of the adventures of Old West historical figures Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache chief, and Tom Jeffords, a U.S. Indian agent.
The book was later adapted into a movie and a TV series, and both of these things ended up influencing U.S. baby names.
Sonseeahray & Debralee
The movie Broken Arrow was released in the summer of 1950. It starred Jeff Chandler as Cochise and James Stewart as Tom Jeffords. But the two baby names that debuted in the data thanks to the movie were associated with a different character: Sonseeahray, played by teenage actress Debra Paget.
Broken Arrow wasn’t Debra Paget’s first movie, but it was her first big hit, and it helped her achieve a new level of fame. And in 1951, her birth name Debralee debuted in the data. In fact, it was that year’s top debut name.
1953: 11 baby girls named Debralee
1952: 9 baby girls named Debralee
1951: 19 baby girls named Debralee [debut]
1950: unlisted
1949: unlisted
The public had become aware that Debra Paget was born “Debralee Griffin” in mid-1950, thanks to a newspaper article by AP journalist Hubbard Keavy, who called Debra’s birth name “improbable” (a curious comment, coming from guy named Hubbard Keavy). He quoted Debra’s mother, Margaret Griffin, as saying:
I christened her Debra. Her father’s people were Pagets. I used to call her Debra Lee, thinking that would be a good professional name. But Paget is more unusual and there are no Pagets in the movies.
Debra’s sister, Marcia Eloise Griffin, also acted under a stage name: Teala Loring.
The name of the character Sonseeahray also debuted in 1951:
1953: unlisted
1952: unlisted
1951: 7 baby girls named Sonseeahray [debut]
1950: unlisted
1949: unlisted
Sonseeahray, defined in the novel as “morning star,” seems to be legitimate Apache name; it was included and defined in the book Life Among the Apaches (1868) by John C. Cremony.
Two real-life Sonseeahrays are Fox News reporter Sonseeahray Tonsall and German actress Sonsee Neu, born Sonsee Ahray Natascha Floethmann-Neu.
Marsheela & Ansara
The TV series Broken Arrow first aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. (Reruns aired in 1959 and 1960.) The show starred Michael Ansara as Cochise and John Lupton as Tom Jeffords. While it did not include the character Sonseeahray, an early episode did feature a Sonseeahray-like character named Marsheela.
Marsheela, played by actress Donna Martell, appeared in the episode “Apache Girl” in mid-1957. The same year, the name Marsheela was a one-hit wonder in the baby name data:
1959: unlisted
1958: unlisted
1957: 11 baby girls named Marsheela [debut]
1956: unlisted
1955: unlisted
I figured out the source of this one only after posting about Marsheila, which was the most-used spelling of Marsheela that year (no doubt because of the familiarity of the Irish name Sheila, which was a top-100 girl name in the U.S. throughout the ’50s and ’60s).
Another one-hit wonder was the surname of Arab-American actor Michael Ansara. Five baby boys were named Ansara in 1960:
1962: unlisted
1961: unlisted
1960: 5 baby boys named Ansara [debut]
1959: unlisted
1958: unlisted
Though Broken Arrow had made Michael Ansara a household name, this debut lines up more cleanly with a later TV Western that Ansara also starred in: Law of the Plainsman, which lasted from 1959 to 1960.
His surname may be based on the Arabic term al-ansar, meaning “the helpers.”
Bruria Kaufman (b. 1918) – American theoretical physicist.
Bunnatine “Bunny” Greenhouse (b. circa 1944) – Halliburton whistleblower.
Burgoyne Diller (b. 1906) – abstract painter.
Burrhus Frederic “B.F.” Skinner (b. in 1904) – American psychologist, author and inventor.
Calbraith Perry “Cal” Rodgers (b. 1879) – made the first flight across the U.S. (in multiple legs) during 1911.
Calouste Gulbenkian (b. 1869) – Armenian philanthropist.
Calvary Morris (b. 1798) – U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Camoralza Hagler Spahr (b. 1826) – politician from Ohio.
Canvass White (b. 1790) – American civil engineer.
Carr Van Anda (b. 1864) – managing editor of the New York Times.
Catulle Mendès (b. 1841) – French writer.
Cavada Humphrey (b. 1919) – U.S. actress.
Cedella “Ciddy” Marley Booker (b. 1926) – mother of Bob Marley.
Chalkley “Chalk” Beeson (b. 1848) – owned the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas.
Chamintney Stovall Thomas (b. 1899) – Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame inductee.
Cherubusco Newton (b. 1848) – U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Chesselden Ellis (b. 1808) – U.S. Representative from New York.
Chloethiel Woodard Smith (b. 1910) – architect and urban planner.
Ciallagalena “Lena” Cobb Williams (b. circa 1900) – from Faubourg Tremé (New Orleans).
Civilla Martin (b. 1866) – Canadian-American hymn writer.
Clairève Grandjouan (b. 1929) – archaeologist from France.
Claricia (13th century) – German illuminator:
D-Cady Herrick (b. 1846) – politician from New York.
Daeida Wilcox Beveridge (b. 1861) – founded and named Hollywood.
Dakota Starblanket “Cody” Wolfchild – the first baby to be breastfed on television (specifically, on Sesame Street in 1977).
Davenie Johanna “Joey” Heatherton (b. 1944) – U.S. actress.
De La Mancha “Mancha” Bruggemeyer (b. 1865 in England) – Chicago judge.
Delarivier Manley (d. 1724) – (female) English novelist.
Delazon Smith (b. 1816) – Senator from Oregon.
deLesseps Story Morrison (b. 1912) – mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana from 1946 to 1961.
Delloreese Patricia Early (b. 1931) – American actress (stage name Della Reese).
De Sacia Mooers (b. 1888) – silent film actress from Michigan.
Devorguille de Burgh (13th century) – English noblewoman.
Dingle Foot (b. 1905) – British barrister and politician. (His first name was his maternal grandmother’s maiden name.)
Diocletian “Dio” Lewis (b. 1823) – early exercise advocate, from New York. (He wrote about the importance of physical training for both sexes in The Atlantic in 1862.)
Donelson Caffery (b. 1835) – U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
Dorilus Morrison (b. 1814) – U.S. politician.
Dunkinfield Henry Scott (b. 1854) – English paleobotanist who established the class Pteridospermeae.
Falconer Madan (b. 1851) – librarian at the Bodleian Library of Oxford University. (His granddaughter was Venetia Burney, below.)
Felissa Rose Esposito (b. 1969) – actress.
Feramorz Little (b. 1820) – mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah from 1876 to 1882.
Fidelis Morgan (b. 1952) – English stage actress.
Filippo “Lippo” Lippi (b. 1406) – Italian painter.
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (b. 1882) – U.S. Representative from New York. (Later the Mayor of New York.)
Fitzedward Hall (b. 1825) – Sanskrit scholar and OED contributor.
Fitz-Greene Halleck (b. 1790) – poet.
Foxhall A. Parker (b. 1821) – U.S. Navy officer during the American Civil War. (His father was also a Foxhall, and he had a brother named Dangerfield.)
Ghillean Tolmie Prance (b. 1937) – British botanist and ecologist.
Ginery Twichell (b. 1811) – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Glendy Burke – mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1865. The Stephen Foster song Glendy Burke is about a steamboat that was probably named for the mayor.
Godlove Stein Orth (b. 1817) – U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Gouverneur Morris (b. 1752) – U.S. Senator from New York.
Goyn A. Sutton (b. 1816) – mayor of Springfield, Illinois from 1860 to 1864.
Grantzberg Hart (b. 1961) – musician.
Green Berry Raum (b. 1829) – U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Green Clay (b. 1757) – Kentucky politician.
Grlenntys Chief Kickingstallionsims (b. 1986) – Alabama State University basketball player.
Iley Lawson Hill (b. 1808) – from Ohio. One of the longest-living “Real Daughters” of the American Revolution, she died in 1913 at the age of 104.
Iorwith Wilbur Abel (b. 1908) – U.S. labor leader.
Isagani R. Cruz (b. 1945) – Filipino writer.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (b. 1806) – English engineer who created the Great Western Railway, along with a number of steamships, bridges and tunnels.
Islin Auster (b. 1904) – U.S. film producer.
Ithamar Conkey Sloan (b. 1822) – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Itimous Thaddeus Valentine (b. 1926) – U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
Itti Kinney Reno (b. 1862) – writer from Tennessee.
Jacobena Angliss (b. 1896) – Australian philanthropist.
Jacquemin (15th century) – brother of Jeanne d’Arc.
Jacquetta Hawkes (b. 1910) – British archaeologist and writer.
Ja Hu Stafford (b. 1834 in North Carolina) – early Arizona settler. His name was originally Jehu. He also went by “J. Hugh.”
Jascha Heifetz (b. 1901) – Lithuanian violinist.
Jawaharlal Nehru (b. 1889) – first Prime Minister of India. Served for 4 terms, from 1947 until 1964.
Jeduthun Wilcox (b. 1768) – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Jeh (pronounced “Jay”) Charles Johnson (b. 1957) – politician from New York. His name “comes from a Liberian chief his grandfather met on a U.N. mission” according to the Washington Post.
Jettabee Ann Hopkins (b. 1905) – radio scriptwriter from Nebraska.
Jetur Rose Riggs (b. 1809) – U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
Jouett Shouse (b. 1879) – lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician.
Sunshine Hillygus (b. circa 1976) – associate professor at Harvard.
Susybelle Wilkinson Lyons (b. 1923) – U.S. philanthropist.
Tammany Young (b. 1886) – U.S. stage and film actor.
Tapping Reeve (b. 1744) – law professor, jurist and writer. Opened the first law school in the United States.
Tazewell Ellett (b. 1856) – U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Tench Coxe (b. 1755) – U.S. Delegate from Pennsylvania.
Theophylact Bache (b. 1735) – merchant.
Thorowgood Smith (b. 1744) – mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1804 to 1808.
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (b. 1914) – U.S. actor and singer.
Tilghman Mayfield Tucker (b. 1802) – U.S. Representative from Mississippi. (Previously the Governor of Mississippi.)
Torquil Norman (b. 1933) – English philanthropist.
Trevanion W. Hugo (b. 1849) – mayor of Duluth, Minnesota from 1900 to 1903.
Trevenen Huxley (b. 1889) – Huxley brother (born after Julian, but before Aldous).
Turbutt Wright (b. 1741) – U.S. Delegate from Maryland.
Twentyman Wood of Connecticut received U.S. patent 19,275 in 1858. (His name reminds me of Twentynine Palms, California.)
Uncas Aeneas Whitaker (b. 1900) – U.S. philanthropist.
Urbici Soler (b. 1890) – American sculptor.
Uz McMurtrie (b. 1884) – politician from Indiana.
Venetia Phair (née Burney, born in England in 1919) – she suggested the name for the planet Pluto when she was 11 years old. (Her grandfather was Falconer Madan, above.)
Verplanck Colvin (b. 1847) – lawyer, author and topographical engineer.
Verrazzani C. Bratton, Sr. (b. 1860) – Arkansas judge.
Vespasian Warner (b. 1842) – U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Victory Birdseye (b. 1782) – U.S. Representative from New York.
Volckert Petrus Douw (b. 1720) – mayor of Albany, New York from 1761 to 1770.
Voltairine de Cleyre (b. 1866) – anarchist and feminist.
Vyto J. Kab (b. 1959) – U.S. football player.
Waddy Thompson (b. 1798) – U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Wambly Bald (b. 1902) – U.S. writer/columnist.
Waveney Bicker Caarten (b. 1902) – (female) English playwright.
Wealthy Babcock (b. 1895) – professor at the University of Kansas.
Wellington Webb (b. 1941) – mayor of Denver, Colorado from 1991 to 2003.
Wentworth Miller (b. 1972) – American actor.
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (b. 1793) – South Carolina politician.
Wigbolt Ripperda (b. circa 1535) – Governor of Haarlem (in the Netherlands) while the city was under siege by the Spanish army during the Eighty Years’ War.
Wilmot Redd (d. 1692) – one of the (female) victims of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Wyke Bayliss (b. 1835) – British painter.
Wynkyn de Worde (d. 1534) – French printer. (The surname refers to a location in France, not words on the page, unfortunately.)
Xenophon P. Huddy (b. 1876) – American lawyer. An early specialist in automobile law.
Xenophon Pierce Wilfley (b. 1871) – U.S. Senator from Missouri.
Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced shu-tez-caht) Martinez (b. circa 2000) – environmental activist.
Yellow Light Breen (born in the 1970s) – lawyer and senior VP of Bangor Savings Bank.
Zackquill Morgan (18th cen.) – founder of Morgantown, West Virginia. Son of Morgan Morgan.
Zadock Pratt (b. 1790) – U.S. Representative from New York.
Zealous Tower (b. 1819) – American soldier and civil engineer.
Zell Bryan Miller (b. 1932) – U.S. Senator from Georgia. (Previously the Governor of Georgia.)
He may have been named with Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli in mind.
Have you encountered any unusual or rare names lately? (In the phone book? In the paper? On TV?)
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